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R RO R Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Vol. XXX No. 14
A CAPPELLA CHOIR members smooth off the final
rough edges in preparation for their 28th annual tour which
begins Friday, Jan. 21. The 58-voice group led by Dr. Carl
R. Youngdahl will tour six states presenting 16 co, ncerts be- fore their return to Augie Feb. 6
Theater Works Marilyn [tinning
On Benefit Play Wins 'Nameless
NEW STUDENT COUNCIL members face the camera for
the first time after election results recently. . Front row left
to right are Marge Harvey, athletic board; and Lillian Lutz,
secretary; center—Roger Snook, Viking Day chairman; Ralph
Bergeland, treasurer; Al Farley, president; and Bart Kull,
social board chairman; back—Jim Sumption, athletic board;
and Chuck Mandsager, vice-president. These officers were
formally installed by retiring prexy Tom Kilian at student
body Friday morning. Dean Jorgen Thompson represented
the faculty at the ceremonies,
Director Youngdahl Recalls The lafria
Every Tour Made By Choir . -
likes to reminisce on one western
trip when 'the group sang in the
hospital at the navy yard in
• ..01
January 17, 1949
by Mary Ode
When the Augustana a cap-pella
choir starts its twenty-eighth
annual tour Friday,
Dr. C. R. Youngdahl, choir
director, can look back on 28
years of traveling with this
organization.
This year's choir of 58 is the
largest he. has ever taken on tour.
The first year the choir wandered
from home ground in 1921, only
33 members went on the trip
which took them through South
Dakota and western Minnesota
and Iowa.
Dr. Youngdahl organized the a
cappella_ choir in 1921 when he
first came to Augustana. At that
time he had charge of chorale
work, band, piano, organ and
Dr. Carl R. Youngdahl
music theory classes. "The
other music instructors were
part-time voice teacher and a
part-time piano instructor," Dr.
Youngdahl said.
The idea of an a cappella
choir was new in 1921.
'People didn't even know
what an a cappella choir was
and many came to the con-certs
out of curiosity. Now
the choir must make good
music if it is to draw the
crowds."
Dr. Youngdahl has 'Covered ap-proximately
60,000 miles with
members of his choir. The organ-ization
has been to the eastern sec-tion
of the United States three
times and west several times. The
choir has gone as far north as
Regina, Canada, but has not
reached the "deep south"—only to
Kansas City.
Recalling some of the highlights
of previous tours, Dr. Youngdahl
Snook Is On National
Theater Committee
Drama director Robert L. Snook
is now serving on a national corn-mitte'e
that is to work on the prob-lem
of closer cooperation between
professional and non-professiona,
theaters.
He was elected to serve in this
capacity at the convention of the
American Educational Theatre
association at Washington, D. C.
Christmas vacation. In this same
field, Prof. Snook is writing an
article for the Theatre Arts mag-azine
on the Augustana College
theatre, especially in line with
guest star appearances.
While on his trip East, he also
spent sometime with Carroll Mc-
Comas, who was Augustana's first
guest star in The Glass Menagerie.
He arranged for her re-appear-ance
here next fall.
Arrangements were also made
throuph the American National
Theatre association for the tour
which Augie's drama students
will make in April.
Bremerton, Wash. "All the brass
of the Pacific coast was at our
concert while most the sailors
were at a dance a short distance
away." Following the concert the
choir was entertained in the Cap-tain's
quarters of the Battleship
"Tennessee."
Sang For NFM Clubs
The choir has sung four differ-ent
times for the National Federa-tion
of Music clubs, which meets
bi-annually, once in Baltimore,
Md., Chicago, Ill., and Minneapol-is,
Minn. A flood prevented the
choir from singing before this
group for the fifth time when it
met in Louisville, Ky.
Another particuarly fond me-mory
for the choir director was
when he was presented a plaque
commemorating his years of
music work in South Dakota. The
plaque was presented by Senator
Bulow, at a concert in Washing-ton,
D. C. where the concert hall
was filled to capacity.
Webs, Glads Elect
New Slate of Officers
Election of officers was the
highlight at the Monday meetings
of the Glads and Websterian so-cieties
last week.
Laurel Gray was elected presi-dent
of the Webs. Other officers
include: Charles Mandsager, vice-president;
Mert Pearson, secre-tary-
treasurer; Bob Binger, in-ter-
society board, and Alva Scar-brough,
sergeant-at-arms. These
officers will hold office one year.
Returns will be in on Monday
for the Glad election held during
the past week. Sweaters for the
new members of this society have
arrived.
The Philos held a shower for
Betty Spitznagel Monday night at
a friend's home.
A joint Demosthenian-Athenian
banquet was held Saturday night,
January 15, at the Cottage. This
was the second in a series of
joint banquets planned by the two
societies for this year.
Register 602 Students
Incomplete registration to-tals
for the second semester
had reached 602 Friday after-noon,
according to registrar
Dr. L B. Hauge. Registration
for old students continues
this week with new students
enrolling Monday, Jan. 31.
Norseman' Contest
Friday at student body, the
contest that has puzzled the
entire campus, "Who 'is the
Nameless Norseman," was
clarified. Marilyn Lunning,
freshman from Sioux Falls,
who was the first to be called
upon, arose and revealed the
Norseman to be Roger Snook,
sophomore from Luverne,
Minn.
Marilyn had named Jack Stark,
a name_ guessed at a previous
meeting. Because his name had
been mentioned before, she was
given another guess amid cheers
from the audience. After re-vealing
the Norseman, she was
brought to the stage where she
and Roger were introduced.
The following list of prizes was
awarded to Marilyn:
A CAMERA FROM SIOUX
FALLS BOOK AND STATION-ERY,
TEN DOLLARS IN CASH,
TIES FROM E.C. OLSON, A TEN
DOLLAR GIFT CERTIFICATE
FROM JEANS: LADIES READY
-
TO . WEAR, AN ABLUM OF REC-ORDS
FROM THE SIOUX
FALLS MUSIC CO., A FIVE
DOLLAR Grua' CERTIFICATE
FROM VVEATERWAX'S, A RAFT
OF TICKETS FROM THE
STATE THEATRE, A GIFT
FROM THE LEATHER SHOP,
' A FIVE DOLLAR GIFT CERTIF-ICATE
FROM THE ROTH
CLOTHING CO., A CANDLE-LIGHT
DINNER AT THE COT-
._ TAGE, TWENTY CHOCOLATE
SODAS FROM DOW DRUG,
AND AN ORCHID OR EQUIVA-LENT
FROM STRONG'S.
The Norseman received, as gifts,
a five, dollar gift certificate from
Weatherwax's and five dollars in
cash. The officials of the contest
were, Kay Abbey, chairman; Carl
Tisthammer and • Ralph Bergland,
co-Masters of cermonies; Craw-ford,
Mills and Chuck Ewing,
collections and publicity. The
contest was sponsored as a
Career's Day benefit, with pro-ceeds
totaling about $20.00.
Fifty-eight members of the
Augustana a cappella choir
and its director, Dr. C. R.
Youngdahl, will leave by two
chartered busses Friday, Jan.
21, to begin the twenty-eighth
annual tour that will take
them through parts of Ne-braska,
Iowa, Kansas, Color-ado,
Wyoming and South Da-kota.
When the choir returns to the
campus Sunday evening, Feb. 6,
they will have given 16 concerts.
One concert will be given every
evening of the tour with the ex-ception
of Jan. 28, when they will
be in Denver, Colo.
Soloists with the choir this year
Elise Halvorson and Norma Mit-chell,
sopranos, and Bill Abbott,
tenor. Accompanying the group
will be Mrs. Milton Larson as
chaperon and Jorgen Thompson,
business manager.
This year the choir goes as far
south as Denver; Colo., a place
which it has touched in two other
tours. Perhaps this twenty-eigh-th
choir and its director will re-turn
with still more interesting
highlights to add to an ever in-creasing
list of outstanding tours.
The itinerary for the tour is
as follows:
Jan. 21—Yankton, S. Dak.
Jan. 22—Newman Grove, Nebr.
Jan. 23—Counoll Bluffs, Ia.
Jan. 24—Concordia, Ran.
Jan. 25—Wahoo, Nebr.
Jan. 26—North Platte, Nebr.
Jan. 27 McCook, Nebr.
Jan 28—(open date) Denver Colo.
Jan. 29—Fowler, Cebo.
Jan. 30—Longmont, Colo.
Jan. 31—Fort Collins, Colo.
FFeebb.. 1—Cheyenne, Wyp.
2—Casper, Wyo.
Feb. 3—Rapid City, S. Dak.
Feb. 4—Pierre, S. Dak.
Feb. 5—Huron, S. Dak.
Feb. 6—Brookings, S. Dak.
Diamonds Found
On Augies' Campus
Big sparkling diamonds were
found on the Augie campus last
week.
Recipients of the- engagement
tokens were freshmen coeds May
Delle Kangas, Hayti, from Ho-ward
storm°, Hayti; and Grace
Paulson, Hudson, from Hobert
Cole, Hudson.
Another freshman, Leighton
Johnson of Flandreau, was mar-ried
to 'the former Belva Fitz-gerald
of Jasper, Minn., recently.
Gordon Carls, senior from Hart-ford,
announced his engagement
to Arlene Tomberg, Beresford.
An Augie student in '46-'47, Ar-lene
is now a parish worker for
Our Savior's Lutheran Church.
Earl Opheim, senior from Sioux
Falls, was married recently to
the former Janice Smith, also of
Sioux Falls.
Inter-Dorm Council
Plans Government
Drawing up of constitutions for
a program of self government in
the various units of housing for
men on campus is the object of
the meeting to be held the first
week in February, as announced
by Dean Jorgen S. Thompson.
At a meeting held Thursday,
Jan. 13, with presidents and repre-sentatives
of the two barracks,
Men's hall and Dean Thompson,
this plan of self government was
outlined.
Augustana's 58-Voice A Cappella Choir
Leaves Here Friday in 28th Annual Tour
The Man Who Came to Dinner
by Kaufman and Hart, one of the
finest comedies ever produced in
the American theatre, will be the
college theatre's next production.
It will open here Feb. 14 for five
performances.
This is an additional play to the
year's schedule. It is a benefit
show, the proceeds of which will
be used for expanding the work
of the drama dept. Being an
extra production, admission will
be charged everyone.
StUdents are still receiving the
four plays on their activity tick-ets,
however, as two more regular
shows will follow.
With Monty Wooley and Clifton
Webb in the leading roles, this
excellent comedy had a very long
run on Broadway.
only
a

R RO R Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Vol. XXX No. 14
A CAPPELLA CHOIR members smooth off the final
rough edges in preparation for their 28th annual tour which
begins Friday, Jan. 21. The 58-voice group led by Dr. Carl
R. Youngdahl will tour six states presenting 16 co, ncerts be- fore their return to Augie Feb. 6
Theater Works Marilyn [tinning
On Benefit Play Wins 'Nameless
NEW STUDENT COUNCIL members face the camera for
the first time after election results recently. . Front row left
to right are Marge Harvey, athletic board; and Lillian Lutz,
secretary; center—Roger Snook, Viking Day chairman; Ralph
Bergeland, treasurer; Al Farley, president; and Bart Kull,
social board chairman; back—Jim Sumption, athletic board;
and Chuck Mandsager, vice-president. These officers were
formally installed by retiring prexy Tom Kilian at student
body Friday morning. Dean Jorgen Thompson represented
the faculty at the ceremonies,
Director Youngdahl Recalls The lafria
Every Tour Made By Choir . -
likes to reminisce on one western
trip when 'the group sang in the
hospital at the navy yard in
• ..01
January 17, 1949
by Mary Ode
When the Augustana a cap-pella
choir starts its twenty-eighth
annual tour Friday,
Dr. C. R. Youngdahl, choir
director, can look back on 28
years of traveling with this
organization.
This year's choir of 58 is the
largest he. has ever taken on tour.
The first year the choir wandered
from home ground in 1921, only
33 members went on the trip
which took them through South
Dakota and western Minnesota
and Iowa.
Dr. Youngdahl organized the a
cappella_ choir in 1921 when he
first came to Augustana. At that
time he had charge of chorale
work, band, piano, organ and
Dr. Carl R. Youngdahl
music theory classes. "The
other music instructors were
part-time voice teacher and a
part-time piano instructor," Dr.
Youngdahl said.
The idea of an a cappella
choir was new in 1921.
'People didn't even know
what an a cappella choir was
and many came to the con-certs
out of curiosity. Now
the choir must make good
music if it is to draw the
crowds."
Dr. Youngdahl has 'Covered ap-proximately
60,000 miles with
members of his choir. The organ-ization
has been to the eastern sec-tion
of the United States three
times and west several times. The
choir has gone as far north as
Regina, Canada, but has not
reached the "deep south"—only to
Kansas City.
Recalling some of the highlights
of previous tours, Dr. Youngdahl
Snook Is On National
Theater Committee
Drama director Robert L. Snook
is now serving on a national corn-mitte'e
that is to work on the prob-lem
of closer cooperation between
professional and non-professiona,
theaters.
He was elected to serve in this
capacity at the convention of the
American Educational Theatre
association at Washington, D. C.
Christmas vacation. In this same
field, Prof. Snook is writing an
article for the Theatre Arts mag-azine
on the Augustana College
theatre, especially in line with
guest star appearances.
While on his trip East, he also
spent sometime with Carroll Mc-
Comas, who was Augustana's first
guest star in The Glass Menagerie.
He arranged for her re-appear-ance
here next fall.
Arrangements were also made
throuph the American National
Theatre association for the tour
which Augie's drama students
will make in April.
Bremerton, Wash. "All the brass
of the Pacific coast was at our
concert while most the sailors
were at a dance a short distance
away." Following the concert the
choir was entertained in the Cap-tain's
quarters of the Battleship
"Tennessee."
Sang For NFM Clubs
The choir has sung four differ-ent
times for the National Federa-tion
of Music clubs, which meets
bi-annually, once in Baltimore,
Md., Chicago, Ill., and Minneapol-is,
Minn. A flood prevented the
choir from singing before this
group for the fifth time when it
met in Louisville, Ky.
Another particuarly fond me-mory
for the choir director was
when he was presented a plaque
commemorating his years of
music work in South Dakota. The
plaque was presented by Senator
Bulow, at a concert in Washing-ton,
D. C. where the concert hall
was filled to capacity.
Webs, Glads Elect
New Slate of Officers
Election of officers was the
highlight at the Monday meetings
of the Glads and Websterian so-cieties
last week.
Laurel Gray was elected presi-dent
of the Webs. Other officers
include: Charles Mandsager, vice-president;
Mert Pearson, secre-tary-
treasurer; Bob Binger, in-ter-
society board, and Alva Scar-brough,
sergeant-at-arms. These
officers will hold office one year.
Returns will be in on Monday
for the Glad election held during
the past week. Sweaters for the
new members of this society have
arrived.
The Philos held a shower for
Betty Spitznagel Monday night at
a friend's home.
A joint Demosthenian-Athenian
banquet was held Saturday night,
January 15, at the Cottage. This
was the second in a series of
joint banquets planned by the two
societies for this year.
Register 602 Students
Incomplete registration to-tals
for the second semester
had reached 602 Friday after-noon,
according to registrar
Dr. L B. Hauge. Registration
for old students continues
this week with new students
enrolling Monday, Jan. 31.
Norseman' Contest
Friday at student body, the
contest that has puzzled the
entire campus, "Who 'is the
Nameless Norseman," was
clarified. Marilyn Lunning,
freshman from Sioux Falls,
who was the first to be called
upon, arose and revealed the
Norseman to be Roger Snook,
sophomore from Luverne,
Minn.
Marilyn had named Jack Stark,
a name_ guessed at a previous
meeting. Because his name had
been mentioned before, she was
given another guess amid cheers
from the audience. After re-vealing
the Norseman, she was
brought to the stage where she
and Roger were introduced.
The following list of prizes was
awarded to Marilyn:
A CAMERA FROM SIOUX
FALLS BOOK AND STATION-ERY,
TEN DOLLARS IN CASH,
TIES FROM E.C. OLSON, A TEN
DOLLAR GIFT CERTIFICATE
FROM JEANS: LADIES READY
-
TO . WEAR, AN ABLUM OF REC-ORDS
FROM THE SIOUX
FALLS MUSIC CO., A FIVE
DOLLAR Grua' CERTIFICATE
FROM VVEATERWAX'S, A RAFT
OF TICKETS FROM THE
STATE THEATRE, A GIFT
FROM THE LEATHER SHOP,
' A FIVE DOLLAR GIFT CERTIF-ICATE
FROM THE ROTH
CLOTHING CO., A CANDLE-LIGHT
DINNER AT THE COT-
._ TAGE, TWENTY CHOCOLATE
SODAS FROM DOW DRUG,
AND AN ORCHID OR EQUIVA-LENT
FROM STRONG'S.
The Norseman received, as gifts,
a five, dollar gift certificate from
Weatherwax's and five dollars in
cash. The officials of the contest
were, Kay Abbey, chairman; Carl
Tisthammer and • Ralph Bergland,
co-Masters of cermonies; Craw-ford,
Mills and Chuck Ewing,
collections and publicity. The
contest was sponsored as a
Career's Day benefit, with pro-ceeds
totaling about $20.00.
Fifty-eight members of the
Augustana a cappella choir
and its director, Dr. C. R.
Youngdahl, will leave by two
chartered busses Friday, Jan.
21, to begin the twenty-eighth
annual tour that will take
them through parts of Ne-braska,
Iowa, Kansas, Color-ado,
Wyoming and South Da-kota.
When the choir returns to the
campus Sunday evening, Feb. 6,
they will have given 16 concerts.
One concert will be given every
evening of the tour with the ex-ception
of Jan. 28, when they will
be in Denver, Colo.
Soloists with the choir this year
Elise Halvorson and Norma Mit-chell,
sopranos, and Bill Abbott,
tenor. Accompanying the group
will be Mrs. Milton Larson as
chaperon and Jorgen Thompson,
business manager.
This year the choir goes as far
south as Denver; Colo., a place
which it has touched in two other
tours. Perhaps this twenty-eigh-th
choir and its director will re-turn
with still more interesting
highlights to add to an ever in-creasing
list of outstanding tours.
The itinerary for the tour is
as follows:
Jan. 21—Yankton, S. Dak.
Jan. 22—Newman Grove, Nebr.
Jan. 23—Counoll Bluffs, Ia.
Jan. 24—Concordia, Ran.
Jan. 25—Wahoo, Nebr.
Jan. 26—North Platte, Nebr.
Jan. 27 McCook, Nebr.
Jan 28—(open date) Denver Colo.
Jan. 29—Fowler, Cebo.
Jan. 30—Longmont, Colo.
Jan. 31—Fort Collins, Colo.
FFeebb.. 1—Cheyenne, Wyp.
2—Casper, Wyo.
Feb. 3—Rapid City, S. Dak.
Feb. 4—Pierre, S. Dak.
Feb. 5—Huron, S. Dak.
Feb. 6—Brookings, S. Dak.
Diamonds Found
On Augies' Campus
Big sparkling diamonds were
found on the Augie campus last
week.
Recipients of the- engagement
tokens were freshmen coeds May
Delle Kangas, Hayti, from Ho-ward
storm°, Hayti; and Grace
Paulson, Hudson, from Hobert
Cole, Hudson.
Another freshman, Leighton
Johnson of Flandreau, was mar-ried
to 'the former Belva Fitz-gerald
of Jasper, Minn., recently.
Gordon Carls, senior from Hart-ford,
announced his engagement
to Arlene Tomberg, Beresford.
An Augie student in '46-'47, Ar-lene
is now a parish worker for
Our Savior's Lutheran Church.
Earl Opheim, senior from Sioux
Falls, was married recently to
the former Janice Smith, also of
Sioux Falls.
Inter-Dorm Council
Plans Government
Drawing up of constitutions for
a program of self government in
the various units of housing for
men on campus is the object of
the meeting to be held the first
week in February, as announced
by Dean Jorgen S. Thompson.
At a meeting held Thursday,
Jan. 13, with presidents and repre-sentatives
of the two barracks,
Men's hall and Dean Thompson,
this plan of self government was
outlined.
Augustana's 58-Voice A Cappella Choir
Leaves Here Friday in 28th Annual Tour
The Man Who Came to Dinner
by Kaufman and Hart, one of the
finest comedies ever produced in
the American theatre, will be the
college theatre's next production.
It will open here Feb. 14 for five
performances.
This is an additional play to the
year's schedule. It is a benefit
show, the proceeds of which will
be used for expanding the work
of the drama dept. Being an
extra production, admission will
be charged everyone.
StUdents are still receiving the
four plays on their activity tick-ets,
however, as two more regular
shows will follow.
With Monty Wooley and Clifton
Webb in the leading roles, this
excellent comedy had a very long
run on Broadway.
only
a